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Cardamine hirsuta
Photo: Flowers of Cardamine hirsuta, by Aelwyn, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Copper Reveals Its Role in Exploding Plants — and in the Miracle of Man

The exploding pods of the popping cress send the plant’s seeds flying in all directions, as far as a meter from the parent. Read More ›
United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket
Image: United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, by NASA/Joel Kowsky.

Whatever the Cause, We Are No Accident

The unique fitness of nature for carbon-based life and intelligent beings of our biology is an empirical discovery. Read More ›
glass-making
glass-making
Photo: Glass-making, by Hessam / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

How Man Became the Fire-Maker

Being terrestrial is one obvious requirement. No fully aquatic species could master fire and thus develop metallurgy. Read More ›
charcoal
Photo credit: Patrick Selin, via Unsplash.

The Role of Lignin for Fire, Explained

Without lignin, there would be no woody plants, no wood, no coal, no charcoal, no fire, no pottery, and certainly no iron or metallurgy. Read More ›

A Reasonable, but Incomplete, Account of How Humans Mastered Fire

The coincidences are so extraordinary that the inference to design is surely worthy of serious consideration. Read More ›

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